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04 | Outbreaks: The bird flu

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03 | Outbreaks: The mozzie mystery

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02 | Outbreaks: The great mimicker

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01 | Outbreaks: The aquarium illness

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INTRODUCING — Outbreaks

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04 | Dead and Alive: Hype train

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03 | Dead and Alive: Plucky country

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02 | Dead and Alive: Quantum attack

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01 | Dead and Alive: Battle for quantum supremacy

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INTRODUCING — Dead and Alive

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12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

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11 | Artemis Explained: Mission accomplished

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10 | Artemis Explained: Countdown to splashdown

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09 | Artemis Explained: Next stop, Earth

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08 | Artemis Explained: Homeward bound

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07 | Artemis Explained: Moon flyby success

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06 | Artemis Explained: Moon joy

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05 | Artemis Explained: Science in space

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04 | Artemis Explained: Halfway to the Moon

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03 | Artemis Explained: No turning back

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02 | Artemis Explained: Lift off

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01 | Artemis Explained: Before the launch

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BONUS | The Challenger Legacy: Q&A

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05 | The Challenger Legacy: Apollo on Steroids

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04 | The Challenger Legacy: The Devil You Know

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03 | The Challenger Legacy: Columbia

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02 | The Challenger Legacy: Five Lepers

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01 | The Challenger Legacy: Launch Fever

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INTRODUCING — The Challenger Legacy

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05 | Artificial Evolution: Gene-Edited Babies

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04 | Artificial Evolution: Pig Parts for People?

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03 | Artificial Evolution: Yuck or Yum? Gene-Edited Meat

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02 | Artificial Evolution: Genetically Modified Marsupials

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01 | Artificial Evolution: Cloning Goes Mainstream

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INTRODUCING — Artificial Evolution

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05 | Brain Rot: Meet the people who ditched their smartphones. Is it worth it?

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04 | Brain Rot: Is internet addiction real?

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03 | Brain Rot: Is tech making your memory better or worse?

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02 | Brain Rot: Is AI turning us off human relationships?

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01 | Brain Rot: Is there any proof your phone is destroying your attention span?

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INTRODUCING — Brain Rot

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06 | Cooked: Vitamin B3 ... and the media

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05 | Cooked: Electrolytes — who needs them?

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04 | Cooked: A peculiar potato experiment

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03 | Cooked: Mystery in the Mediterranean

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02 | Cooked: All-meat eaters say they feel great - but why?

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01 | Cooked: Could ice cream actually be good for you?

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00 | INTRODUCING — Cooked

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06 | Is super-intelligent AI around the corner?

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05 | The year the world woke up to AI with a bang

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04 | If you control AI, you control the world

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03 | The bumpy history of driverless cars and their AI brains

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02 | Locked up by AI for a crime he didn't commit

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01 | The day modern AI toppled humanity's champion

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I for one welcome... Hello AI Overlords!

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REAL WILD CHILD (Part 4) — The Lost Boys

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What family secrets hide inside your cells? Epigenetics, trauma, and ancestry

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Robbie and the DNA Detectives

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REAL WILD CHILD (Part 3) — The superstar of Tai Asks Why

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REAL WILD CHILD (Part 2) — I grew up in a cult

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REAL WILD CHILD (Part 1) — The nuclear boy scouts

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Thanks for the fun! Science Friction's Natasha Mitchell has some news

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The fantastical world of fusion – The Expanse's Ty Franck and futurist Karl Schroeder (Part 2)

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Nuclear disruption — will starry-eyed startups win the nuclear fusion race? (Part 1)

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The unexpected lives of Lab Shenanigans and The Scholar Diaries

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Out of jail, is the CRISPR-baby scandal scientist at it again?

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Science is political — Australia's science minister Ed Husic

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Quantum bullsh*t — how (not) to ruin your life with advice from quantum physics

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We're here, we're queer, and omg science!

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World Pride 2023 - Love Your Nature

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Rock celebrity! The big bucks and wild geopolitics of meteorites - Part 2

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Rock celebrity! The Black Beauty saga - Part 1

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Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed? (REPEAT)

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Twinning! (REPEAT)

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Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain — superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky (REPEAT)

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AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her (REPEAT)

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Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist (REPEAT)

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The mighty fly army (REPEAT)

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Brains vs brains, boys vs girls! Science Friction's 2022 quiz show

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Prison for protesting - climate change activists or criminals?

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The soul in the machine — anthropologist, technologist, futurist Genevieve Bell

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The End of the Universe with poet Alicia Sometimes (Part 2 of 2)

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Presents: WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? Citizens Assemble!

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Presents: WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? Better Call Saul

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Love and Exile: An everlasting mystery (Part 2 of 2)

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Love and Exile: An everlasting mystery (Part 1 of 2)

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Sex, tech, intimacy and power — Jennifer Mills, Rob Brooks, Josephine Taylor

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Deep Past meets Deep Future — science fiction star Becky Chambers

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What came before the Big Bang? Poet Alicia Sometimes wants to know

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Do we need a revolution? Bruce Pascoe, James Bradley, Michelle Johnston, Lesley Head

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Sex cells! Are there just two biological sexes? [Part 2]

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Simón(e) Sun - I knew I was trans because of science [Part 1] REPEAT

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I still call Australia home ... but. Why the USA is stealing our scientists

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Fire of Love – the radical passion of Katia and Maurice Krafft

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If trees could talk (Part 2) - Living fossils on the edge

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If trees could talk … what could they tell you? (Part 1)

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YOU can save the planet. Con or not? National Science Week debate

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The wattle war (repeat)

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Ecofascism – are far-right extremists the new environmentalists?

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Holy great desert fireballs! The meteorite chasers